[CentOS] Win 10 and C 6 CUPS

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 7 Aug 2019 17:21:53 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> >> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the
> >> damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a
> >> USB laserjet?
> >>
> > Since forever (ah, about Win 2000) Windows knows UNIX printing. Making
> > windows box talking to UNIX print server its native language makes the
> > most robust setup. It is, however not turned on by default. So (adjust to
> > your version as Microsoft reshuffles location of all the same tools with
> > ever release):
> >
> > Control Panel —> Programs and Features —> Enable/disable features
> >
> > In the long list there is Printing, click on it to expand, and enable LPR
> > and LPD
> 
> AHHHH!!! That I had no clue about (I do *not* do Windows).
> >
> > Now when creating printer choose to create new local port, choose LPR (or
> > does it say LPD?) port and give your CUPS server name, and queue name.
> > The rest is as usual (choose printer driver, I prefer postscript ones).
> >
> Dumb question: queue name - is that like printer name, in the CUPS admin
> web page?

Yes.

> >
> > You should be done now. Incidentally, I use CUPS with LPD listening on
> > the server side, as the last makes the most robust setup for variety of
> > clients. We have FreeBSD server, and client systems are: FreeBSD, Linux
> > (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows, MacOS.
> >
> > I hope, this helps.
> 
> We'll see when my lady gets back from SC next week. Thanks very much.
> 
>     mark
> >
> >
> > Valeri
> >
> >
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